UTILIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF LODGEPOLE PINE. 



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Table 8. — Range in cost of -production of lodgepole-pine saiv timber, railroad ties, and 

 mine props in Wyoming and Colorado. 



Operation. 



Saw timber 

 (log scale). 



Railroad ties 

 (standard 



Mine props 

 (all lengths). 



Felling, cutting, and trimming 



Brush piling or lopping 



Skidding 



Hauling to flume, river , railroad, or main road ] 



Fluming, driving, railroading, or hauling on main road . 



Milling, piling, and delivering at market 



Loading on cars at market point 



Per thousand 



boardfeet. 



SI. 00-81. 50 



.25- .50 



. 75- 2. 00 



1. 00- 2. 50 



1. 00- 3. 00 



4.00-7.00 



Per tie. 

 50. 12-SO. 16 



.01- 

 .01- 

 .02- 

 .03- 



Per linear foot. 



SO. 0020-SO. 0050 

 .0005- .0010 

 .0005- .0015 

 .0010- .0020 

 .0010- .0080 



.02- .03 



.0010- .0020 



Total cost at market 2 . 



8. 00-16. 50 



.21- .44 



.0060- .0195 



i Includes building winter roads. 2 Without stumpage or overhead charges. 



The figures which follow show the cost of an operation on private 

 lands adjacent to the Arapaho National Forest, in Colorado, where 

 600,000 feet of logs were cut into rough boards and dimension 

 material. Although in the actual operation no disposal was made of 

 brush or debris, an item of 50 cents per thousand board feet has been 

 included to make the cost comparable to similar operations on the 

 National Forests, where brush piling is required. The stumpage price 

 has been arbitrarily placed at $2 per thousand board feet. 



Per thousand 

 board feet. 



Felling and bucking into logs (cutting crew of 2 men, who also trim trees) $1. 21 



Piling brush (done by separate crew of 1 or 2 men) 50 



Skidding (skidders do necessary swamping; maximum skid 500 feet; average 



250 feet) 77 



Hauling logs to mill (haul on sleds; average distance If miles) 84 



Road building (road3 for winter hauling only) 13 



Construction of logging camp 13 



Blacksmithing and repairing 11 



Supervision and accounting (includes wages of woods foreman) 30 



Decking at mill 18 



Depreciation of equipment (covers logging equipment only) 02 



Sawing (includes depreciation, taxes, and other charges on sawmill) 2. 25 



Yarding lumber at mill 35 



Hauling lumber to railroad (sled haul 4 miles to railroad) 1. 00 



Loading on cars 50 



Freight to market 2. 75 



Stumpage 2. 00 



Total cost at market 13. 04 



Selling price, mill run at market 15. 00 



Net profit (15 per cent on the operating cost) per thousand board feet. . . 1. 96 



The following appraisal of conversion costs and stumpage prices 

 for a block of pure lodgepole pine on one of the National Forests in 

 Wyoming may be taken as typical of the larger operations. This 

 sale would involve the cutting within a period of 5 years of approxi- 

 mately 45,000,000 board feet, of which about 33,000,000 feet is suit- 

 able for ties and the remainder for saw timber. 



